Miriam Pena is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience in real-time bidding systems and Erlang infrastructure. At NextRoll, from October 2015 to January 2018, Miriam served in various technical leadership roles, including Technical Lead for the Real-Time Bidding team, where responsibilities included managing a high-performance Erlang platform handling over one million bid requests per second. Miriam also contributed as a Sr Staff Software Engineer, collaborating across departments to align product vision with technical execution. Currently, from February 2024, Miriam works as a Software Engineer on WhatsApp infrastructure at Meta. Additionally, Miriam has a background with Nomasystems S.L., Tuenti, and major automotive clients, along with a founding role and board membership at the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation since April 2018.